Reference Base Notes for: Distribution - Reasons for decline back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    Foose, T.J.; Strien, N.J. van 1998 Conservation programmes for Sumatran and Javan rhinos in Indonesia and Malaysia. Pachyderm 26: 100-115, figs. 1-11, tables 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Reasons for decline Sumatran Rhino Poaching pressure is more intense on the Sumatran rhino, whose populations have declined at least 50% in the last decade, almost entirely due to poachers.   details Foose, T.J.; Strien, N.J. van 1998 Conservation programmes for Sumatran and Javan rhinos in Indonesia and Malaysia. Pachyderm 26: 100-115, figs. 1-11, tables 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Reasons for decline Asian Rhino Species The predominant cause of decline of Javan and Sumatran rhino is poaching for the horn. Considerable habitat loss has occurred throughout their range as forests are destroyed for timber or converted to agriculture, but the AsRSG estimates that sufficient habitat remains for at least several thous...   details Foose, T.J.; Strien, N.J. van 1995 Asian Rhino Specialist Group activities. Asian Rhinos 1: 2-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Reasons for decline Indian Rhino Levels of poaching in both India and Nepal are significant and intensifying.   details Bonal, B.S.; Sharma, R.; Barthakur, T.; Barua, B.; Das, D.C.; Boro, S. 1995 Birth of a female Indian rhino calf in Assam State Zoo. Zoos Print 10 (9): 28-29, figs. 1-2, tables 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Reasons for decline Indian Rhino Excessive hunting for sport, and poaching.   details Amato, G.D.; Wharton, D.; Zainuddin, Z.Z.; Powell, J.R. 1995 Assessment of conservation units for the Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis). Zoo Biology 14: 395-402, tables 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Reasons for decline Sumatran Rhino Deforestation, commercial hunting for their horn.   details Walker, C.H. 1994 Rhinos in Africa - the present situation.: pp. 1-3 In: Penzhorn, B.L. et al. Proceedings of a symposium on rhinos as game ranch animals. Onderstepoort, Republic of South Africa, 9-10 September 1994: pp. i-iv, 1-242 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Reasons for decline African Rhino Species Why have we in Africa allowed this to happen? The answer is not that simple and even less simple when trying to pin the blame on 1,2 billion faceless individuals in the East who frankly have never seen a rhino and in most respects are totally oblivious of its existence. There is no need, howeve...   details Brooks, M. 1992 Chairman's report: African Rhino Specialist Group. Pachyderm 15: 5-6, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Reasons for decline African Rhino Species The slowing in the rate of decline in the black rhinoceros can be explained simply by there being fewer soft targets, but the populations in many countries have been depleted to dangerously low levels. Less than half the 14 countries with black rhino populations have more than 50 rhinos, and onl...   details Baskin, Y. 1991 Archaeologists lends a technique to rhino protectors. Bioscience 41 (8): 532-534 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Reasons for decline African Rhino Species The rhino's greatest liability is its horn. In China, it has been long valued as a staple in folk medicines. In Yemen, it is carved into expensive dagger handles. Trade in rhino horn has been banned by international treaty for more than a decade, but the ban has done little to stem the animal'...   details Khan, M. 1989 Asian Rhinos: an action plan for their conservation. Gland, IUCN, pp. i-iv, 1-23 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Reasons for decline Asian Rhino Species Although this decline is in part related to habitat shrinkage and fragmentation, it seems likely that all these species have been declining for many centuries, principally due to the excessive demand for rhino horn for use in oriental medicine. This represents one of the least sustainable uses o...   details Cumming, D. 1987 Zimbabwe and the conservation of black rhino. Zimbabwe Science News 21 (5/6): 59-62, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Reasons for decline African Rhino Species The overiding cause of the decline in black rhino in Africa has been commercial poaching for the horn which is exported illegally to North Yemen and to the Far East; in Yemen the horn is carved into dagger handles while in Asia it is used in traditional medicines where it is believed to reduce fe...   details Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Reasons for decline Sumatran Rhino One of the most seriously endangered mammals in the world, thanks to the loss of its preferred rain-forest habitat, poaching, and other factors upsetting the normal patterns of the animal's life in the wild. Even before the destruction of so much of its preferred habitat, hunting was a constant ...   details Edroma, E.L. 1982 White rhino extinct in Uganda. Oryx 16 (4): 352-355, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Reasons for decline White Rhino Extinction white rhino in Uganda. Causes for Decline The reasons for the rhino's extermination are not difficult to identify. Until 1950 the decline was due to loss of the borne range due to increasing human population, agricultural land use and illegal hunting, coupled with the rhino's relati...   details Veevers-Carter, W. 1979 Land mammals of Indonesia. Jakarta, PT Intermasa Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Reasons for decline Javan Rhino If their trails are disturbed, individual rhinos become isolated and find it more difficult to reproduce.   details MacNamara, M.C. 1975 Great Indian rhinoceros, Rhinoceros unicornis. Animal Kingdom 77 (3) Jun-July: inside back cover, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Reasons for decline Indian Rhino Since ancient times, countless numbers have been slaughtered for their horn alone. As far back as the year 200, a Greco-Roman named Aelian wrote about the magical properties of rhino horn. Even in the twentieth century, many still believe this fibrous tissue to be a potent aphrodisiac. In China, ...   details Fitter, R. 1974 Most endangered mammals: an action programme. Oryx 12 (4): 436-449, figs. 1-5, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Reasons for decline Sumatran Rhino It occurs or is believed to occur in eight or nine reserves es in Thailand, Malaya, Sumatra and Sabah, but like many other jungle species of this region, its future is tied to that of the rapidly diminishing rain forest. The malaysian reserves in particular are under great pressure. Another im...   details Banerjee, R. 1972 Where flying vultures reveal secrets - Kaziranga. Cheetal 15 (1): 48-50, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Reasons for decline Indian Rhino Overhunting, and over-intensive transformation of habitats, have reduced numerous animal populations to the point of extinction. The chief sufferer has been the rhinoceros, which was slaughtered, to satisfy the demands of Chinese pharmacists since the rhinoceros. horn is famous for its alleged a...   details Schaurte, W.T. 1968 Threatened species of rhinoceros in tropical S.E. Asia: pp. 284-293 In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Reasons for decline Asian Rhino Species Poaching. Poaching still goes on to a very large extent! There is a tendency for people to think that poaching is an insurmountable problem. It is, of course, nothing of the kind, for good management on the part of conservation personnel together with the encouragement they deserve from higher...   details Hill, C.A. 1968 Kaziranga. Zoonooz (San Diego) 41 (9) Sep: 4-8, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Reasons for decline Indian Rhino Hunting was doubtless an important reason for the decline of the species, but even more so was man's modification of the rhino's habitat. As the human population increased, so did the land area put under cultivation or grazing. Close contact with man's domestic animals has had detrimental effec...   details Anonymous 1963 Animals in danger: the Great Indian rhinoceros. Animals 1 (22): 2, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Reasons for decline Indian Rhino It is highly priced for its horn, which is popularly supposed tto have aphrodisiac properties. Its natural habitat is being gradually cleared for agriculture.   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Reasons for decline Sumatran Rhino Aphrodisiac. A widespread belief throughout the East in the aphrodisiac properties of rhinoceros horn, especially among the Chinese has been the primary cause of the great dimunition in numbers of all the species in Asia, and the rarity of rhinoceros makes the horn all the more valuable. It is ...   details Dollman, J.G. 1937 Mammals which have recently become extinct in British North Borneo. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 67-74 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Reasons for decline White Rhino The White Rhinoceros of Africa is in rather a different position from the Asiatic species, as it is not only strictly protected by rules and regulations but these are enforced. In the days of the early settlers in South Africa this rhinoceros was so plentiful that it was all in a day's work for ...   details Dollman, J.G. 1937 Mammals which have recently become extinct in British North Borneo. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 67-74 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Reasons for decline Javan Rhino The reason of this great scarcity is not difficult to ascertain. The horns of this and other species of rhinoceros are practically worth their weight in gold to the natives, who poach them, rhinoceros horn being used for medicinal purposes of a quack nature in the Far East. So much so is this t...   details Hornaday, W.T. 1918 Popular official guide to the New York Zoological Park, 15th ed. New York, Zoological Society, pp. 1-192 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Reasons for decline African Rhino Species The African Two-Horned Rhinoceros once was very abundant throughout the whole of the fertile plains region of east and south Africa, but the onslaughts of hunters have exterminated it from probably nine-tenths of the territory that it once occupied. To-day, the Englishmen of Africa are earnestly...   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal